Standing on the ground and looking up at the sky this is what you see. Life is all alt/azimuth (except when you're in bed asleep or using an equatorially mounted telescope ). I found the site very useful for showing to me and my geographically distributed family what each of us can expect to see. A nice job well done. The front page is a bit like a 1970s album cover though, so I await future content with caution.

On transit day I will be celebrating with a four cheese pizza graced with a single black olive.

I'll be out in the California desert for other reasons that day, but will bring my binocs (found 'em!), a piece of paper for projection and my eclipse shades for an attempt at a direct sighting (no, not looking through the binoculars.)

@Stu: Projecting the sun image on a cardboard shown there is one excellent method and the one that I am going to use.

You do know that Sun's IR light can be focusing inside some of glass parts of your binocular which can damage some of them beyond repair...right?When you project Sun image through a telescope, you should use some cheap Kellner, or some other kind of simple eyepiece...because there are no glass parts in focal points.The best way to see Sun is through Baader solar filter which should always be in front of your optical instrument. NEVER BETWEEN your optics and your eyes.Also should be known that this film reduces the intensity of sunlight by 99.999% (optical density 5.0), optical density of 3.8 is not recommended for optical observation (Photo Film OD = 3,8).

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.Jules H. Poincare

I used a pair of binoculars to project the image of the transit in 2004 with no ill effect at all on the binoculars. I was in a busy corridor so hundreds of students and others saw the projected image. I would gladly do the same again even if I had to throw the binoculars away afterwards (which I doubt). Go Stu!

Rain hitting the window as I type this, and that rain will continue to, and past, sunrise at 04.50 here in the UK, so it looks like there's more chance of us Brits seeing Elvis, Lord Lucan and Bigfoot landing a UFO on the head of the Loch Ness Monster than there is of us seeing anything of the transit.

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